TidBITS#253/21-Nov-94
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TidBITS begins this week with a smattering of MailBITS, including
information about a potentially serious problem with early
Pentium chips and news about Apple's upcoming Multimedia Tuner.
We then continue with a look at DeskTape, a clever program that
lets you mount DAT tapes on the desktop. Rounding out the issue,
Dave Reiser shares his thoughts about what's new in
WordPerfect 3.1.
This issue of TidBITS sponsored in part by:
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MailBITS/21-Nov-94
DeskTape as a TapeWORM
WordPerfect 3.1
Reviews/21-Nov-94
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MailBITS/21-Nov-94
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For all those who have been asking, Tonya is recovering nicely
from her neck injury of five weeks ago. It's been a slow process,
but luckily she has the luxury of healing properly. That means
spending most of her time concentrating on getting better rather
than dealing with life, and I think it's made a big difference.
[ACE]
**APS on the Internet** -- Two weeks ago, I visited APS after
giving an Internet presentation the night before to a great crowd
at the Kansas City MacCORE users' group. I spent most of the day
helping bring up their dedicated 56K Internet connection, a
process that required merely persistence in having each party
(Southwestern Bell, the phone company that installed the line;
Cory Low, the consultant who set up the router and Mac server;
Tyrell, the provider; and Sprint, Tyrell's provider) double-check
everything and help fix problems in each part of the connection.
The initial utility of the connection is that APS can receive
Internet email more easily than before, when everything went
through CompuServe and into QuickMail. Now, their QuickMail server
also runs StarNine's Mail*Link/SMTP. You can
find more information about the gateway at the following URL:
http://www.starnine.com/
Using the gateway along with QuickMail, APS has created a number
of public Internet addresses (and APS strongly encourages people
to use these addresses rather than the old CompuServe address).
They are: [ACE]
Domestic Sales:
International Sales:
Technical Support & Customer Service:
Repair:
**Apple to Release Multimedia Tuner** -- Rumor has it that Apple
just completed work on Apple Multimedia Tuner 2.0, a system
extension designed to enhance the performance of QuickTime 2.0 and
Sound Manager 3.0 on systems 6.0.7 through 7.5. The system
extension improves QuickTime and audio memory management and helps
applications that do not "properly" initialize movie playback
under QuickTime 2.0. It should also improve reliability in low
memory conditions on the Quadra 840AV and 660AV.
Preliminary tests indicate that the Tuner does help QuickTime and
audio playback in low-memory situations on a variety of systems.
One wonders if there was ever a version 1.0 of this patch, but
sometimes it's best not to ask too many questions. Multimedia
Tuner 2.0 will reportedly be distributed free of charge; keep an
eye on Apple's FTP servers and appropriate Usenet newsgroups for
an announcement. [Pythaeus]
**Math Bug Confirmed in Pentium Chips** -- Earlier this month,
reports of a floating point division bug in Intel's Pentium chip
began to surface on CompuServe and in Usenet newsgroups such as
. Mathematics professor Thomas Nicely of Lynchburg
College in Virginia is generally credited with the first public
announcement of the bug, which Intel claims to have discovered as
early as June.
The bug - involving double-precision floating point divide
operations - occurs once in every 9 or 10 billion divides and
seems unlikely to affect the average user. However engineers,
analysts, and others who bought Pentium systems as a substitute
for high-priced workstations have expressed genuine concern.
Intel claims to have corrected the problem in currently shipping
Pentium chips, but there are no part-number changes or other
markings on the corrected chip. According to the 21-Nov-94 issue
of Electronic Engineering Times, Intel indicates they will replace
the part if customers are concerned. However, Intel is apparently
not planning to upgrade existing Pentiums or inform their
customers. In the meantime, programs are circulating which
determine if the bug is present on a given machine. Intel
Technical Support -- 800/628-8686 [GD]
http://www.wais.com:80/techweb/eet/current/default.html
**Brady Johnson** writes to announce a new
product that might be of interest:
DayDoubler is a new product from Connectrix that gives you those
extra hours in each day that we've been asking for. Using
sophisticated time mapping and compression techniques to double
the number of hours in the day, DayDoubler gives you access to 48
hours each day. With the shareware hack MaxDay, you can easily
stretch your day to 60, 72, or even 96 hours! Connectrix warns
that at the higher numbers DayDoubler becomes less stable and that
you run the risk of a temporal crash in which everything from the
beginning of time to the present would come crashing down around
you, sucking you into a black hole.
Should this occur, be sure to reboot with the shift key down.
DeskTape as a TapeWORM
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by Adam C. Engst
These days, people mainly use removable storage media for
distribution, backup, and data sharing. SyQuests are perhaps the
most common removable media, but the most frequently used SyQuests
are limited to 44 and 88 MB of data. What if you need to send
someone many megabytes of data but would prefer not to send
expensive cartridges? Optima Technology's DeskTape may solve your
problem, assuming that both you and your recipient use DAT drives
for backup.
DeskTape 2.0 is a one trick pony. As its lone trick, DeskTape
mounts DAT tapes on your desktop as normal, albeit slow, Finder
volumes. You can do most anything with a DeskTape volume that you
can do with any Finder volume, with a few exceptions. Most
importantly, because files on a DAT are written sequentially, you
cannot mount a DeskTape volume and edit files stored on the
volume. Similarly, you can't reclaim space from deleted files.
Finally, you can't (or shouldn't) share a tape over a network
because of the ways networks interact with tape drives. In
addition, you'd be wasting time to launch applications from the
tape or rebuild the desktop on the tape because you could grow old
waiting for the process to finish. Interestingly, Optima gives
instructions for playing QuickTime movies from tape, which
apparently is possible if everything works just right (and there's
a full moon).
In other words, use DeskTape to copy files to a DAT tape and copy
files from a DAT tape, but try to avoid other tasks. So maybe a
DeskTape volume isn't quite as useful as a Finder volume, but how
many Finder volumes do you have that cost $10 to $12 and can hold
several gigabytes? Not many, I suspect, but DAT tapes fit the bill
precisely.
Optima ran into an interesting problem with DeskTape. DeskTape
works well for sharing tons of data, but it's a little
unreasonable to expect people to buy DeskTape just to read a few
files from a colleague. As a result, DeskTape comes copy-protected
and can only be installed three times, using a special DAT tape
with keys on it. You can uninstall DeskTape to increment the
counter again, but avoid reformatting your hard disk without
uninstalling or you lose one of your three installs. I suspect it
would be difficult, if not impossible, to copy the special DAT
tape containing the keys. To share data, users send their
colleagues copies of the DeskTape control panel on a floppy disk.
Without the key, the DeskTape control panel permits the tape to be
used only in read-only mode, turning the DAT drive into something
of a tapeWORM.
DeskTape supports hardware data compression features in many DAT
drives, but make sure your recipient's drive also supports
compression. If in doubt, leave it off - you'll still have more
free space than you know what to do with. To increase the
admittedly mediocre performance (hey, we're talking tape here,
adjust your expectations), DeskTape does things like store the 5
MB (default size) tape directory on the startup volume (in the
Preferences folder - make sure you have space), and provide
configurable controls for the RAM buffer that help keep the tape
streaming during copying. The default size of the directory file
limits the number of files you can copy to the tape to between
8,000 and 25,000, but the manual recommends leaving the directory
file size at the default if you plan to share tapes with other
users.
The DeskTape control panel includes various utilities for testing
the tape drive and media, rewinding, retensioning, positioning,
and ejecting the tape, and, should you need them, utilities for
resetting the SCSI bus, and creating or repairing the end-of-data
marker that enables the drive to locate the last block written.
Optima should be commended for being up front about the various
limitations surrounding DeskTape, which is good because otherwise
you might run into problems with disk recovery programs (don't use
them on a DeskTape volume) or Retrospect (which won't see a tape
as a tape, but as a hard disk). If you use DeskTape and
Retrospect, I recommend using an extension manager to link the
DeskTape control panel and the Retro.startup extension so that
both cannot be active at the same time. That should prevent
Retrospect from starting up automatically while DeskTape is
active.
In the end, most people will use DeskTape with inexpensive DAT
tapes for ad hoc backups and archives (I recommend Retrospect 2.1
for real backups), and for sharing large quantities of data with
colleagues. Someone once asked about the best way to regularly
send a gigabyte of data to another office several hundred miles
away via the Internet - the answer is to use DAT and an overnight
courier and avoid bogging down the Internet.
DeskTape is not a utility for everyone, simply because not
everyone has the necessary DAT drive and gigabytes of data for
DeskTape to be useful. However, if you do have a DAT drive and
regularly work with massive quantities of data, especially if you
send those files to other people, DeskTape could save you time,
money, and hair. DeskTape lists for $299, and none of the big Mac
mail order companies seem to carry it, so contact Optima directly.
Optima Technology -- 714/476-0515 -- 714/476-0613 (fax)
WordPerfect 3.1
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by Dave Reiser
[I asked Dave to write this review as a follow-up to the review of
WordPerfect 3.0 that he wrote earlier this year. Dave would like
us all to note that his opinions do not necessarily represent
those of his employer. Assuming my neck continues to heal nicely,
I'll follow up in a few weeks with some thoughts about how
WordPerfect 3.1 compares to Word 6. -Tonya]
I recently dug up my review of WordPerfect 3.0 (from TidBITS-205_)
and read through it, wondering what they've done for me lately. In
WordPerfect 3.1, Novell has done quite a bit. In addition to
enhancing the program, Novell sped up several features, did not
slow down any part of the program that I've noticed, and did not
create a disk storage monster.
**New Features** -- The most visible changes to 3.1 are
QuickCorrect (an automatic typing corrector) and the new features
for System 7.5, which include support for the Drag Manager
(exchanging information between files and applications without
having to copy and paste), Apple Guide (interactive help), and
QuickDraw GX printing (see TidBITS-243_ for more about QuickDraw
GX) .
I haven't used Drag Manager much, but it seems to work as the
manual says: drag a selection out to the desktop and the Mac puts
a copy there, available to be dragged into another document (the
document could be from WordPerfect of from or any other compliant
application).
I have seen the future of computer "How To" writing, and that
future is Apple Guide or its successor. People seem to be of two
minds about Apple Guide: some are indifferent; others are drooling
at the thought of seeing a really good help system. Being in the
latter category, I'll offer the defense that anyone who has done
much computer support has run across features they have had to
demo time and again. A help system that can walk the user through
a process, using a real example of the user's choosing, and
explaining the operation while it happens, is truly music to my
soul. WordPerfect Guide (the WordPerfect specific files that run
under Apple Guide) includes only a subset of topics in the regular
help file, but it's a good start. If I could only get Novell to
throw out that lousy clone of Microsoft Help they use for the
regular help files, I'd be happier. I find Apple Guide a bit too
slow on a IIci, but for a beginner it probably isn't too bad.
QuickDraw GX printing makes it much easier to create a program
that can handle landscape and portrait pages in the same document.
I've been waiting for the ability to include a few landscape pages
in a standard portrait document since Apple promised it two years
before the original System 7.0 shipped. It finally works, and it's
almost enough to justify the extra memory GX takes. People with
lots of printer choices on a network will probably appreciate GX
printing support. I also think that Hoefler Text (one of the GX
fonts Apple includes with System 7.5) represents a definite
improvement over the PostScript fonts most of us are used to
working with. If Apple can get enough companies to create and
support GX fonts, computer typography will take another leap
forward. On the other hand, Hoefler Text is kind of tiring to look
at on the screen.
QuickCorrect is WordPerfect's name for what I call a typo catcher.
It fixes simple things that people mis-type, such as "teh" instead
of "the", multiple spaces between words, no capitalization at the
beginning of a sentence, or an inadvertent second capital letter
at the beginning of a word. QuickCorrect isn't a full spelling
checker, or it would be way too slow. It does catch little
mistakes quite well, in exchange for a slight hesitation in some
screen operations.
You can also use QuickCorrect as a mini-glossary. You can edit
QuickCorrect's substitution list to include up to 254 characters
for any "word" you want to be shorthand for the longer piece. For
example, if you always want to write out "alternating current"
instead of "ac", just edit the list appropriately.
Native Power Mac support was added in 3.0a last March, and 3.1
adds a fat binary install option. PowerTalk support also existed
in a previous version, but I haven't tried it.
**Speed** -- Scrolling is only slightly faster than 3.0a, but
screen redraw action is much quicker in normal text entry. If you
type in tables on a 68030-based Mac, the screen redraw still gets
jerky when the text is being entered in a cell that is right along
the edge of the document window. It's sad to see my IIci become
the slowpoke of the Mac family, but I still find 3.1 serviceable
on the old machine. Novell says 3.1 will run on a Mac Plus under
System 6.0.7 in a 2 MB memory partition. I believe it would run,
but I'm almost positive I'd use a text editor with a mark-up
language before I'd wait for any long document editing on a Plus.
Maybe one of these days I'll drag out my Plus and see what it's
like.
If you want some numbers (all times in seconds), I'll pick on
scrolling and word count for the WordPerfect Read Me file, which
has 67 pages and about 19,500 words. In case you're wondering why
the file so long, 40 pages are appendices which offer a list of
all the command key equivalents, an Apple event dictionary, macro
commands, and macro variables. All this information is available
online, but not in the bound manual. Apparently Novell took so
much heat for not printing it that they put it in the Read Me
file.
> jump jump to jump word
> Machine System to end beginning to end count
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> IIci 7.0.1 (w/tuner) 19 sec 4 sec 7 sec 35 sec
> IIci 7.5 10 ? 4 19
> 7100 with 7.1.2 4 <1 <1 4
> L2 cache
The reason I include multiple jumps is that the first time through
the file, WordPerfect checks some formatting information as it
goes, after that it remembers most of what it checked. For anyone
tempted to inject an "I can do that instantly on xxx," I'll throw
in the additional test of using the scroll box to go part way
through a large file. WordPerfect's times are proportional to the
distance through the file. The "instant" jumps in other programs
often go away when you go somewhere other than the beginning or
end. Scrolling with the scroll arrows is much too fast to read on
the Power Mac. On the IIci, arrow scrolling goes quickly for just
text, but gets jumpy or slow when graphics are involved.
In the last review I complained about text entry in a ten column
by thirty row table. On the IIci, I can still out type the screen
redraw by the time I'm halfway into the table, but the screen
redraw is noticeably better than 3.0. (My work-around is to do
heavy data entry in tab delimited form, select it all, and convert
it to a table with the Text-to-Table function. It only takes a few
seconds.) On the 7100, I didn't have to wait for the screen at
all.
I've been on a speed binge for a while, and I find myself asking
whether this much emphasis on speed makes sense. It may, in that
anything distracting will irritate a writer, and lack of speed is
distracting. [Indeed! -Adam] Other things are important when
considering power and ease of use: consistency of the interface,
ease of access to the most often used functions, predictable
access to infrequently used features. I've thought for a long time
that WordPerfect's creators had a strong design vision. Most of
the time I like their design strategy, so I like the program.
**What's Present and What's Missing?** -- The review of 3.0 gives
a lot more information about the implementation and features.
Almost none of that information has changed in 3.1 - except, of
course for items mentioned here.
I think the biggest negative surprise in 3.1 is that Outlining is
still nothing more than flexible paragraph numbering. I guess
Marketing figured keeping up with Apple was a bigger plus than
waiting for other major feature additions.
The other disappointment is the lack of character-based styles.
The way WordPerfect handles paragraph styles pretty much requires
that manual formatting changes be avoided if styles are ever
edited or different styles applied to existing text. Since the
ability to make those changes is supposed to be one of the major
advantages of styles, I find WordPerfect's styles not useful
enough to bother with often.
WordPerfect now includes Macintosh Easy Open from Apple and
Microsoft Word translators from DataViz. You can _finally_ export
to Word format. There is also the choice of the built-in or
DataViz version of the Word import translator. I think
WordPerfect's converter does a better job than DataViz's (on slow
save format files - if you have extensive fast saved Word files,
the DataViz translator will probably be your only choice). I still
have several complaints about the how much cleanup I have to do
after importing files from Word. This issue is my biggest nit to
pick with WordPerfect. If you're trying to take on the market
gorilla, you must be prepared to swing from higher trees.
The Document Experts and clip art that WordPerfect mailed to
people sending in their registration cards for 3.0 now come as
disk 6 in the upgrade package. I don't know if first time buyers
get disk 6 with the rest, or if they still have to register first.
The Experts, which you can think of as combining stationery and
macros, have become smarter in some cases. The envelope macro
(which is a Document Expert run from the Macro menu) allows better
control of address offsets from the default margins set up the
first time you run the macro. I still have to trick the envelope
macro into working properly with my DeskWriter C, but I appreciate
the improvements.
**Hardware Requirements** -- WordPerfect 3.1 takes up around 12 MB
of disk space on a 68K based Mac, if you include all the fonts,
Document Experts, clip art, documentation, and tutorial files
included in the package. I use a 3,000K RAM allocation for the
program (even on the Power Mac, as long as virtual memory is on or
RAM Doubler is in use). Novell claims it will run in 2,000K on a
68K Mac, but I've always found their minimums a bit optimistic.
WordPerfect document files are not svelte. Compression programs
can regularly squeeze 75 percent of the space out of WordPerfect
files. The Save As dialog box offers a "WP 3 Compressed" option,
but I haven't been able to get it to give me smaller files,
despite taking a lot longer to save. I think there is a bug here.
**Pricing** -- Anyone can buy WordPerfect Mac 3.1 for $99 until
31-Jan-95. Upgrades from prior WordPerfect versions are $59. After
January 31st, the retail price goes to $395 and upgrades to $69.
The upgrades are free to anyone who purchased 3.0a after 15-Aug-94
and until 30-Nov-94. If you do want to take advantage of the free
upgrade, be sure to upgrade on or before 30-Nov-94.
All in all, I still like WordPerfect Mac a lot, and I have every
intention of using it as my main word processor for the
foreseeable future.
Novell Applications Group -- 800/451-5151 -- 801/225-5000
801/228-5077 (fax) -- (support)
Reviews/21-Nov-94
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* MacWEEK -- 14-Nov-94, Vol. 8, #44
Relational Databases -- pg. 57
4D 3.2
4D Server 1.2
Omnis 7 3
Helix Express 2.0.4
FoxPro Professional 2.6
RunWay, RunShare -- pg. 60
MacDraft 4.0 -- pg. 62
* Macworld -- Sep-94
Adobe Illustrator 5.5 -- pg. 56
Aldus FreeHand 4.0 -- pg. 57
Apple Color StyleWriter Pro -- pg. 58
IntelliDraw 2.0 -- pg. 59
Infini-D 2.6 -- pg. 59
Macromedia Director 4.0 -- pg. 61
DateBook & TouchBase Pro 4.0 -- pg. 63
Persuasion 3.0 -- pg. 65
FontChameleon 1.0.1 -- pg. 67
PLI Infinity 270 Turbo -- pg. 69
PowerPrint 2.5.1 -- pg. 69
MovieWorks 2.0.2 -- pg. 71
P-Touch PC -- pg. 73
HyperCard 2.2 -- pg. 73
Dynodex for Macintosh 3.5 -- pg. 75
AccuZip6 1.8.7; Bulk Mailer CASS 1.00d; ZP4 12.1 -- pg. 77
FastTrack Schedule 2.1 -- pg. 78
SCSI Director Pro 3.0.6 -- pg. 83
Creative Writer 1.0 -- pg. 85
Mayo Clinic Family Health Book 2.0 -- pg. 87
Mayo Clinic: The Total Heart 1.0 -- pg. 87
SCSI Sentry -- pg. 91
Conley SR2 RAID System -- pg. 91
SAM-CD -- pg. 93
TextBridge 2.0 -- pg. 93
CD AllCache 2.0 -- pg. 95
JMP 3.0 -- pg. 95
Quadra 630 -- pg. 98
Personal Printers -- pg. 116
(too many to list)
System 7.5 -- pg. 126
* Macworld -- Oct-94
PowerBook 540c -- pg. 54
PowerBook Duo 280c; PowerBook Duo Dock II -- pg. 56
Fontographer 4.0.4 -- pg. 57
Aldus PageMaker 5.0 -- pg. 57
24-bit Accelerated Display Cards -- pg. 58
Apple Macintosh Display Card 24AC
Radius LeMansGT
RasterOps Horizon 24
SuperMac Spectrum Power*1152
Tornado Graphics Card
Power Macintosh Upgrade Card -- pg. 61
Alacrity PM 6100 -- pg. 63
MicroPhone Pro 2.0 -- pg. 65
Animation Master 2.0.5 -- pg. 65
In Control 3.0.4 -- pg. 67
MusicTime 2.0 -- pg. 69
ZipZapp 1.0 -- pg. 69
Conflict Catcher II 2.1.1 -- pg. 71
Spyglass Plot 1.0 -- pg. 71
Maple V 3.0 -- pg. 73
Street Atlas USA 2.0 -- pg. 73
Stop & Go 4.0 -- pg. 75
SuperScope II 1.25 -- pg. 75
IDL 3.5 -- pg. 77
Spectra-Com P192mx -- pg. 77
FontMixer 1.0 -- pg. 1.0
Extend+BPR 3.0 -- pg. 78
ReadySetGo 6.0 -- pg. 82
Crystal Ball 3.0 -- pg. 83
Windows on a Mac -- pg. 86
Apple DOS Compatible Card
Timbuktu Pro 1.0
SoftWindows 1.0
OrangePC
Remote Access Servers -- pg. 106
(too many to list)
* Macworld -- Nov-94
Quadra 630 -- pg. 52
MiniCad 5 -- pg. 54
Dabbler 1.0 -- pg. 55
Apple Personal Diagnostics -- pg. 57
ScanPrepPro 1.2 -- pg. 59
LogoMotion 1.0 -- pg. 59
TeamFlow 3.1 -- pg. 61
First Things First Proactive 1.1 -- pg. 63
Kekule 1.1 -- pg. 63
Drive7 3.0 -- pg. 65
OmniPage Professional 5.0 -- pg. 67
PowerAgent 1.1 -- pg. 67
White Knight 12.0 -- pg. 69
ClickBook 1.1 -- pg. 70
PowerPort Mercury/PB 500 series -- pg. 70
Terrazzo 1.0 -- pg. 75
CheckPost 1.3; LaserCheck 1.0 -- pg. 75
The Multimedia Workshop 1.0 -- pg. 77
Decision Analysis 2.5 -- pg. 77
DaynaPort Pocket SCSI/Link; Pocket EtherTalk Adapter -- pg. 79
MicMac 2.0v1 -- pg. 79
MATLAB 4.1 -- pg. 81
PhotoMatic 1.01 -- pg. 81
Mac Keyboard Deluxe -- pg. 82
Maxima 3.0 -- pg. 82
Desktop Videoconferencing -- pg. 86
Cameo Personal Video System
Connect 918
ShareView 3000
Visit Video
Two-page Color Displays -- pg. 104
(too many to list)
* Macworld -- Dec-94
Live Picture 1.5.5 -- pg. 52
Adobe Premiere 4.0 -- pg. 54
PowerBook 150 -- pg. 57
ElectricImage Animation System 2.0 -- pg. 59
Internet Packages -- pg. 61
The Internet Companion
**Internet Explorer Kit and Internet Starter Kit**
Internet Membership Kit
KPT Bryce 1.0 -- pg. 63
Square One 2.0 -- pg. 65
eDisk 2.0 -- pg. 65
PageTools 1.0 -- pg. 67
ErgoKnowledge 1.0 -- pg. 69
AirNote 1.0 -- pg. 69
Cooperative Adapter -- pg. 71
SoundEdit 16 -- pg. 73
Arrange 2.0 -- pg. 73
FlexCam -- pg. 75
CA-Cricket Graph III 1.52 -- pg. 75
FlightStick Pro for Macintosh -- pg. 76
Chamber Works 1.0.2 -- pg. 76
Writing Coach 1.0 -- pg. 81
Souvenir 2.2 -- pg. 81
FastSwitch 10 -- pg. 83
Crossword Wizard 1.0 -- pg. 83
1.3 GB Optical Drives -- pg. 108
(too many to list)
* MacUser -- Nov-94
QMS magicolor Laser Printer; Xerox 4900 Color Laser Printer -- pg. 39
Adobe Premiere 4.0 -- pg. 42
PowerPort/Mercury for the PowerBook Duo -- pg. 45
Kensington Turbo Mouse 4.0; Logitech TrackMan for Macintosh -- pg. 46
First Things First Proactive -- pg. 47
Zoom -- pg. 48
Silver Streak -- pg. 51
Maple V Release 3 -- pg. 52
Atlantic Technologies SlimWriter -- pg. 54
After Effects 2.0; Video Graffiti -- pg. 56
Prince of Persia 2 -- pg. 63
Specular TextureScape -- pg. 63
SuperMac Spigot II Tape -- pg. 63
CameraMan 2.0 -- pg. 64
Type Twister for Macintosh -- pg. 64
VideoDrome -- pg. 64
LogoVista E to J -- pg. 67
Microsoft Fine Artist; Microsoft Creative Writer -- pg. 69
Scanners -- pg. 82
(too many to list)
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